Word: corns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iowa Corn...
...heyday, Guys and Dolls set the town on its ear. Critic John McClain of the New York Journal-American said the show might be just as good as Oklahoma! or South Pacific, but more important, he added, "This is the medium of our town -- not the tall corn or the waving palms." In 1992 its second coming was even more ballyhooed, from the front page of the New York Times to the cover of New York magazine and even network TV. For the first time in years, the most coveted ticket is not to one of the big British musicals...
...flowed from the surge in foreign sales. For example, more than $20 billion in revenues made by U.S. airplane manufacturers comes from sales abroad, money that then finds its way into the cash registers of grocery and shoe stores and insurance agencies in the communities where the workers live. Corn growers bring more than $6 billion of cash into the country, scientific-instrument makers more than $12 billion. Contrary to the protectionist shibboleths, imports benefit the country as well: from cars to vcrs, the American consumer saves money because of cheaper products shipped from overseas...
...delicious. The vaguely dry ground beef bathed in once-powdered gravy, corn and perhaps some chopped carrots, topped with mashed potato. My first shepherd...
...make matters worse, the worst drought in a century has hit southern Africa this year--famine threatens to engulf the entire region. Normally a big exporter of food, South Africa will have to import four million tons of corn this year, or about two-thirds of its consumption...